董事会何时对委托和信赖负责?以港铁公司为例

Chee Keong Low, T. Low
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2014年4月15日,香港铁路有限公司(“港铁”)意外宣布其快铁项目延期两年,运输及房屋局局长兼港铁非执行董事张国荣教授表示,他“完全感到意外”。本文论述在公司法范畴内提出的两个重要而相关的问题,即香港董事可在多大程度上委派其责任,以及他们可在多大程度上依赖第三方。在2014年3月3日颁布新《公司条例》后,这一点尤为重要,该条例将董事应遵守的谨慎标准写入法律,而港铁部分董事会成员可能违反了这一标准。
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When is the Board Accountable for Delegation and Reliance? A Case Study of the MTR Corporation
On 15 April 2014, the MTR Corporation Limited (‘MTR’) unexpectedly announced a two-year delay in its Express Rail Link project leading Professor Anthony Cheung, the Secretary for Transport and Housing as well as a non-executive director of the MTR, to express that he was ‘totally caught by surprise’. This article addresses two important and related issues that are raised in the context of company law, namely, the extent to which directors in Hong Kong can delegate their responsibilities and the extent to which they may place reliance upon third parties. This is especially significant following the enactment of the new Companies Ordinance on 3 March 2014 that codified the standard of care expected of directors, which benchmark some of the members of the board of MTR might have breached.
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